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by Mayonnaise » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:10 am
WRT the weight loss tangent... I'm a lazy butt... pretty much the only exercise I get is on stage in theater. But I just bought the Wii Fit, (21 days ago, as it tells me each day how long I've been using it,) and I love the thing. The board can take anyone up to 350 pounds and the Step Aerobics in it are great, it's like... step aerobics meets Dance Dance Revolution. Or the virtual hula hoop, where you try to get more hula rotations than you had last time. Also you can unlock a kickboxy type thing.
It also weighs you really accurately, and plots it on a line graph for ease of referance. The only trouble I've seen is it tells you via old fashioned BMI calculations if you are Underweight, Normal, Overweight or Obese, which offends my roommate, because she has a high muscle mass that throws the readings and makes her come out nearly Obese. It plays a little musical riff that sounds like something for circus clowns if you're in the "overweight" section... I guess the idea is to encourage you to get out, but it can be discouraging. She's ignoring it tho, and concentrating on making the line on her weight graph go down toward her goal line (you set the goal and time to complete it, yourself.) And the clown music is working as intended on my SO... he just gets more determined to get out of the overweight section. I'm in the normal range, (don't hurt me!) so I don't have that issue. It just encourages me to move toward the middle of normal.
But if you have a Wii... the Wii Fit is great, because once you get good at the step aerobics part you can unlock "Free Step" with which you can take a half hour long power walk, in your house, while watching TV (the controller plays a metronome noise to which you step on and off the board, letting you switch the TV channel off the game to watch a show.) The strength and yoga exercises are pretty nifty too, but I think the "Balance Games" like snowboard slalom, that are all controlled by leaning, are more fun than helpful workout wise.
Warning: If you are 6 foot tall or more, do not do the yoga under a ceiling fan.
8^)